Brendan Fraser revealed that he as soon as auditioned to be Superman in a canceled movie.
Fraser advised Josh Horowitz throughout an interview on his Blissful Unhappy Confused podcast that he was nearly solid because the Man of Metal. He recalled doing a display check for a possible Superman movie by JJ Abrams and Brett Ratner. The superhero adaptation sadly by no means made it to manufacturing as Warner Bros. determined to maneuver ahead with Bryan Singer’s 2006 Superman Returns as an alternative.
Nonetheless, Fraser admitted that he wasn’t positive if he would have been the best match for the position for the mission within the first place. The Mummy actor defined how it might have been numerous stress to tackle such an iconic position, and being the face of such an enormous franchise would require numerous dedication.
The actor additionally expressed the anxiousness that he most probably would have confronted if he had performed the Man of Metal in a movie. He added that there was part of him that feared he would solely be generally known as Superman and nothing else if he bought the position. He made it clear that it would not be a foul factor to be generally known as one of the iconic superheroes of all time, however he was uncertain if he needed that to be part of his model.
You’re feeling just a little sure anxiousness anyway while you’re going up on some huge job,” he stated, “however I additionally bear in mind considering: ‘If I do get this job, then, nicely, I feel Superman’s gonna be chipped on my headstone.’ There’s a component of, you might be that for the remainder of your days, your profession. And that’s not a foul factor; I’m not saying it’s gonna kill me any time quickly, however it’s one thing that turns into a part of your complete model, who you might be. And I don’t know if I used to be able to take that on then. I imply, I felt I used to be as a result of [it was a] huge alternative, and pleasure, et cetera, et cetera.
Though the untitled movie by no means got here near seeing the sunshine of day, Fraser stated that he felt very linked to the script. It even surprisingly reminded him of a Shakespeare play. “I cherished that screenplay. They let me learn it. They locked me in an empty workplace in some studio lot, I signed an NDA. It was printed black on crimson paper, so that you couldn’t photocopy it or sneak it out the door inconspicuously. I imply, it was Shakespeare in area. It was a extremely good screenplay,” he defined.
As for Abrams’ superhero ventures, in 2021, experiences surfaced that he was engaged on a Superman movie with novelist Ta-Nehisi Coates. Though story particulars relating to the upcoming film are nonetheless underneath wraps, their model of Clark Kent will likely be set in a special timeline and unrelated to James Gunn’s iteration of the character.